Certain Quote by Mark Haddon

I went from a very structured life in Oxford going to school every day to suddenly a week later I was living in Budapest…

— Anya Chalotra

I deliberately went to boarding school. It was my choice. My mum was abroad and I wanted to wean myself off being dependent. It…

— Alice Englert

Being at boarding school in the pre-internet era, especially a boarding school tucked away in the Oxfordshire countryside, was like being in a cocoon.…

— James Lovegrove

I went to boarding school from the age of eight - first to prep school, then to Eton. One thing that kind of education…

— Damian Lewis

When I first came to Oxford, I struggled to feel comfortable in an Anglican, public school-dominated institution.

— Niall Ferguson

The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in…

— Jacques Derrida

In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.

— Imran Khan

I got into New College, Oxford. The ethos was that you could work - or not.

— Nigel Rees

I have an addictive personality. Boarding school merely sent me more quickly on the downward spiral that dominated my childhood.

— Marcus Brigstocke

It was tough going to boarding school. It was very hard work.

— Jasmine Guinness

When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself…

— Patrick White

I'm the first to admit I've had a sheltered life. I grew up in the country and went to a boarding school. It was…

— Adam Rickitt